《英美文学教学资料》英美文学样卷答案及解释（参考）.docxVIP

Part I1. Ulysses written by James Joyce, in fact not a novel, since there is virtually no story, no plot, almost no action, and little characterization in the usual sense.2. In the story “A Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, Mrs Mallard first has her sensuous awakening which leads to her self-awakening.3. In Miss Brill, the sentence “But even the band seemed to know what she was feeling and play more softly, played tenderly, and the drum ‘The Brute! The Brute!’ over and over” uses a figure of speech called empathy.（移情）4. Natureis one of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s best-known and most influential essays, which is a lyrical expression of the harmony he felt between himself and nature.5. James Joyce is the most famous stream of consciousness novelist whose writing has had powerful influence on the work of many other modernist writers.6. Long Days Journey Into Night an autobiographical play of Eugene O’Neill, which has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of O’Neill’s literary career and the coming of age of America drama.7.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is A Modest Proposal.8. In the story “A clean, Well-delighted Place”, the word “insomnia” in the last sentence “After all, he said to himself, it is probably insomnia. Many must have it” suggestsspiritual crisis.9. The major elements of fiction include plot, character, setting, point of view, theme, symbol, allegory, style and tone.(except meter)10. The imagist poem “In a Station of the Metro” written by Ezra Pound exemplifies his tenet of “make it new”.11. The novel Wuthering Heights is told in multiple first person points of view.12. In the story “A Story of an Hour”, the last sentence “When the doctor came they said she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills.” is a dramatic irony.13. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily”, can be regarded as a symbol for old values, bigotry and eccentricity, and rigid ideas of social status, E